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The Standard of the World

After 35 years, I a, starting to dig these cars. I hated them so much when they came out. Wrong drivetrain - weak engines and FWD. The styling was such a confused mess of current Cadillac and a throwback to a car they never made, with the most awkward C-pillar I had seen. All that incongruity surrounded an overstuffed cigar lounge. Nothing was understated. nothing was nimble.

Guess what? It's not Christmas. The most wonderful time of the year as a car guy is January in Scottsdale AZ. Why? Take a look at out schedule:

1/7/17 - Scottsdale Motorsports Gathering - Cars from the AZ Concours and the Russo and Steele auction. Yeah, that might be foreshadowing.
1/10/17 - Media preview at the 2017 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction
1/14/17 - Panel discussions at the Biltmore.
1/15/17 - The 2017 Arizona Concours d-Elegance. The valet lot is usually the second best show of the day.
1/18-1/21 - Gooding & Co. This is one of the candy store auctions, where grail cars just await your golden ticket(s). The obvious stars for us are the Stratos, the Lincoln, a wonderfully grungy, garage-found Porsche 356, an RS200. A Vincent Black Shadow!

What to drive when you manage the Boulder Sinclair station for 15 years and can't afford to live in town anymore, let alone replace "Betsy" with something made this decade.

At least that was the story of the black truck like this in knew in Boulder in 1992. I worked at that station, knew the owner (whatever her name was) and decided I would rather go to grad school as planned than take that promotion to assistant manager